Was someone at SkepticalScience plotting to pretend evil skeptics created these pictures? (… surely not.)

Brandon Schollenberger found them on the SkS forum. Admire the effort taken to get the SkS penguins, the leaf insignia on the hat, the lapels, the button…

Reichstuhrer SS J.Cook

Or lo, is this just the weekend fun of teenagers let loose with photoshop? Looks like.

Spartans for Science, Watts, Monckton and Delingpole

Anthony Wattshas a larger set(and a pretty good six-pack too) which is “lucky” (sort of), because not long after he posted the first few, the images disappeared from their original links. In a true SkS logical maneuver they were moved to …/images/a11g0n3 (images “allgone”), which took real skeptics about five minutes to find. That set have gone too now (except for the 400 copies placed all over the Internet).(bold added)

A fresh look at the Wayback Machine finds some more of SS's SS images have not yet been erased, (but be quick! These too will disappear) including the self-described image of Herr Cook (above) and a pointer to Herr Cook on the platform of a Nazi rally (below). All found on the Wayback Machine and showing the original site was http://www.sksforum.org/images/a11g0n3. (images allgone)